SOIL & SEED - A PHOTO SERIES FROM MARIA BELL
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JOURNAL
Representing creative individuals whose craft, skill and practices are all connected by a commitment to positive change.


The infamous quote from Albert Howard reflects a simple truth: “The health of soil, plant, animal and man is one and indivisible.” Too...


- Nov 18, 2022
KITTEN GRAYSON - KITTEN GRAYSON FLOWERS
Flowers evoke a sense of wonder, keeping me connected to the seasons and what is going on in the world around me.


- Nov 4, 2022
KATHERINE PRESTON - WAYZGOOSE
We first met Katherine when she helped us source some fabric to use as tablecloths for one of our earliest events.


- Sep 16, 2022
VICKI BAKER -UNCUT STEMS
We were honoured to be part of Vicki's initial conversations with growers when she was setting up her British grown flower club during...


- Jul 20, 2022
GEORGE WEBBER - GREENSIDE PRIMARY SCHOOL
I knew I was on the right track when a boy helping out in the garden with some broad beans said “Oh I get it now Miss, that one seed we put

- Jun 14, 2022
ALEX CHERRY - GROUNDSWELL AGRICULTURAL FESTIVAL
My father Paul and uncle John Cherry had been farming the land at Weston in North Hertfordshire for over three decades...


- Apr 29, 2022
LIV JAMES - DOWN FARM GROWERS COOPERATIVE
Liv first met Liv at university in the student journalism room of the SU. Despite taking different routes to get there, they've found...


- Apr 15, 2022
KIRSTY LEE - MORE OUTDOOR FRIENDS
Our world is becoming an increasingly mobile place; the distribution of life can feel abundant as we move across town, city and country.


- Mar 18, 2022
KATHE KACZMARZYK - FOUNDER OF SPECERIBUTIK
When I dreamed about what I would do when I got older, I never once imagined it would be owning and running a shop.


- Mar 5, 2022
IAN JAMES - WATER LANE
Water Lane is one of the projects that may never have come about if it hadn’t been for the first lockdown.


- Feb 18, 2022
WILL ROLPH - WHAT CAN TWO FIELDS REALLY CHANGE?
In 2013, a visit to Greece would change our lives. We just didn’t know it at the time.


- Feb 14, 2022
WHY BUY ROSES IN FEBRUARY?
This is not a simple question and there is not a simple answer, but with the environmental and ethical impacts of our demands for unseasonal


- Dec 20, 2021
CECILIA BYRNE - ENDLESS RHYTHM
Any cooking process which requires three ingredients or less has always attracted me. I have always liked the idea of doing more with less


- Nov 26, 2021
HOLLY LETCH - MAD ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY
In September I travelled to Copenhagen to attend the MAD Academy


- Oct 29, 2021
LIZ SEABROOK - PHOTOGRAPHER
At the end of April this year, I was commissioned to work on a book about female chefs – 30 to be precise.


- Oct 22, 2021
PEAT
As Autumn draws in, leaves fall and we start to put our fields to bed, we think about the myriad of organic mulches and bagged composts


- Sep 17, 2021
LUCY VINCENT - FOOD BEHIND BARS
The other week I put a set of photos on Instagram of a vast, dilapidated old greenhouse set within some wild and unruly grounds.


- Sep 9, 2021
BREAD & ROSES - FLORISTRY AS A TOOL FOR SOCIAL GOOD
When I’m not in the fields growing or in the studio with SSAW, I work with Sneh Jani and Olivia Head on Bread & Roses


- Aug 27, 2021
CHARLIE HARPUR - PLANTSMAN
Charlie Harpur is a plantsman, landscape architect and ultramarathon runner. After an initial stint stuck behind the computer at work...


- Aug 19, 2021
STEVE BARRON - MARGENT FARM
In 2015 my daughter had a daughter and it made me question what kind of world she was coming into. I was busy making films, creating an invi
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